Spoof news stories from Sunday 24 April 2005

Shirley Knott: HOLLYWOOD - On the heels of the engagement of Ben Affleck to Jennifer Garner came a celebrity shocker this week when Affleck announced he is admitting himself for treatment at the Betty Ford Clinic.

In a display of the masterful compromise and diplomacy that has characterized the Bush administration, the publishing and control of history books in the US will remain in the private sector, laden with government regulation and subsidies. "Modern hi...

Rome-Silvio Berlusconi's government suffered yet another embarrassing political setback yesterday-they were all re-appointed to office. Berlusconi has re-formed his ex-government in to yet a new government, Italy's sixtieth in as many years.